Outputs (796)

Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This study examines the construction of debt attitudes among 439 first-year undergraduates in England and New Zealand. It works from a conceptual model that predicts that attitudes will be partly determined by a range... Read More about Individual and Social Influences on Students’ Attitudes to Debt: a Cross-National Path Analysis Using Data from England and New Zealand.

‘Funny games’: Deviant play in contemporary British children’s fiction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper explored representations of 'deviant play' in selected recent children's books.

Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia (2016)
Book Chapter

More often than not, novelty is met with suspicion. The status of “newness” is very rarely given a particularly high value not only because of the unfamiliarity it carries but also because of the threat it poses to established norms. Digital technolo... Read More about Digital scholarship: Recognizing new practices in academia.

Students’ and their parents’ experiences of inclusion in mainstream schools. What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system? (2016)
Thesis

This thesis examines experiences and critical incidents that parents and their children with special educational needs encountered in mainstream school settings.

Research was carried out within the methodological framework of autoethnography, re... Read More about Students’ and their parents’ experiences of inclusion in mainstream schools. What does inclusion mean for parents with children that have special educational needs and what does it mean for the children themselves in today’s mainstream schooling system?.

EFL listening comprehension, cognitive and metacognitive strategies and working memory (2016)
Thesis

The purpose of this study is to compare the pedagogic efficiency of two methods for teaching listening comprehension: the cognitive strategy-based instruction method (CSBM) and the metacognitive strategy-based instruction method (MetSBM). Both instru... Read More about EFL listening comprehension, cognitive and metacognitive strategies and working memory.

Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation (2016)
Book

This book explores higher education, social class and social mobility from the point of view of those most intimately involved: the undergraduate students. It is based on a project which followed a cohort of young undergraduate students at Bristol’s... Read More about Higher education, social class and social mobility: The degree generation.

How to research multilingually: Possibilities and complexities (2016)
Book Chapter

'Don't ride on that crocodile!': Roald Dahl and the cautionary tale (2016)
Journal Article

This article traces the genesis of selected examples of Dahl's fiction to the 19th century cautionary tale.

Bourdieu: The Next Generation (2015)
Book

Thatcher the State School Snatcher (2015)
Digital Artefact

Blogpost for The BERA Blog: Research Matters. https://www.bera.ac.uk/blog/thatcher-the-state-school-snatcher